"Othello" as tragedy : some problems of judgment and feeling
Jane Adamson considers in detail Othello and explores the ways the play continually undercuts easy moral simplifications as well as the moral questions raised in other characters. This study also illuminates Shakespeare and especially his insight into the need for love, and the dangers that are inseparable from that need.
Print Book, English, 1980
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Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1980
IX, 300 p. ; 22 cm
9780521223683, 9780521297608, 0521223687, 0521297605
911308315
Preface; Introduction; 1. The 'comforts' of praise and blame; 2. 'Injuries' and 'remedies': the first two acts; 3. 'Pluming up the will': Iago's place in the play; 4. Personal and professional identity: Othello in the first two acts; 5. 'Alacrity in hardness': Othello's crisis in Acts III and IV; 6. The 'hollow hell' of vengeance: Othello's attempted remedies; 7. Self-charity and self-abnegation: the play's women in love; 8. The 'power to hurt' and 'be hurt', 'past all surgery': the final scene.